Chapter 453: Grave Robbery 4: Searching for the Goddess (1)

After several years, when the last film in the "Grave Robbers" series was released, many people felt that their youth was about to end.

Strictly speaking, this is just a commercial film that likes to make a big scene. What it likes most is to use extremely impactful visual effects and various soundtracks that fit the picture to give the audience an unparalleled audio-visual enjoyment - and then, it is just a period of aftertaste and gradually forgotten as time goes by.

But it is with such favorable conditions that it has become something different from ordinary commercial popcorn movies: it is an oriental movie directed and produced by Chinese people, with ideas and traces that are unique to Chinese productions, which cannot be matched by movies that claim to have oriental elements.

The most crucial thing is that it has two features that can never be replicated: First, it was born out of the influence of the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, but it has created a completely different ideological core from "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

Prior to this, the tomb-robbing craze brought about by the "Indiana Jones" series in those years was all driven by the madness of money. Only the "Grave Robbers" series, from the very beginning of the story, has transformed those actions for personal gain into top-down protective excavations led by the "officials". The preciousness of the "antiquities" and their invisible contributions to the country and history are told through the plot and the mouths of the protagonists, making the concept of "protecting the country's antiquities" deeply rooted in the hearts of the people - especially the last point, which has made those who took advantage of the information gap and went to the Chinese mainland to "pan for gold" grit their teeth for this.

Clearly, they only spent a little money to get precious Chinese antiques from those "ignorant fools", and then they could make thousands or even thousands of times the profit by reselling them back home...

Such a lucrative operation plays right into the hearts of those who claim to be "civilized people from developed countries". Over the years, it has helped them rise from the middle and lower levels to the top levels.

Until the emergence of the "Grave Robbers" series.

I have to say that even though this film is mostly starred by actors with oriental faces, it is indeed well-made.

Coupled with Marie Sue's special effects technology and popularity, as well as the cleverly designed and coherent storylines, it has the style of a Hollywood-style blockbuster series. It can be regarded as a very successful popcorn movie both in Hollywood and in China.

But therein lies the problem: the threshold for popcorn movies is relatively low, which also determines its popularity and mass appeal. The audience will not have too much difference in understanding, and the story content and what the movie wants to say can be instilled into the audience at the simplest level... Mary Sue positioned this series in this way from the very beginning, which is really thoughtful.

Everyone knows that at that time, the Chinese mainland was in a period of ruin and reconstruction. Although efforts were being made to carry out compulsory education, the rate of knowledge popularization had not yet kept up. Therefore, she deliberately chose such an easy-to-understand and entertaining film format to inform people who watched this series of films to understand the importance of recognizing and protecting antiquities at the greatest level.

The results of this action are obvious to all: the "Grave Robbers" film series was used by Marie Sue to negotiate with relevant Chinese departments, continuing Marie Sue's "movies going to the countryside" plan.

From big cities to second- and third-tier towns and then to remote mountain villages, step by step, the market has been siphoned off, and in the end, those ignorant people who can barely read and write have treated those old things in their hands, whose value they don’t know, as precious treasures. When they finally find a few people who are willing to sell, they still ask for exorbitant prices...

The most abominable thing is that those ignorant people ask them for exorbitant prices. As a result, when their own people issue an order to collect antiques for research, many people who usually cannot bear to pay even a few cents for transportation will honestly pack up their old things at home and send them all away without paying a penny. Some even pay for the transportation and shipping to send the parcels...

How can there be such strange and stupid people in this world? !

While those foreigners who came to "pan for gold" suffered losses one after another in mainland China, their native countries were also affected to a certain extent.

This is the second key point of the "Grave Robbers" series: in the past, simply inserting some so-called "Oriental elements" into the work could attract a lot of overseas Chinese to spend money. Even if they used means to praise or criticize or directly ridicule, there would still be many yellow-skinned and white-hearted lickspittles to help them excuse it...

In particular, the act of specifically finding some ugly-looking Asians as villains to highlight the superiority of their own people is the most effective way to make such a contrast "deeply rooted in people's hearts" and can lead many cognitively incomplete teenagers and children to embark on a path that they hope the new generation will take.

Over time, this distorted cognition will be deeply rooted in the minds of the new generation, turning "dross" into "tradition."

But the "Grave Robbers" series, under such circumstances, forcibly used a group of handsome and beautiful Asian actors to break everyone's "cognition" that has not yet been completely and firmly engraved in their minds!

Moreover, the Mary Sue family is particularly good at stirring up trouble. Every time they release a movie, they use the same costumes as the movie, and the popularity has always remained high, making many young people here think that Chinese people are not only handsome men and beautiful women, but also stylish and cool. In recent years, they have created one "Oriental fever" after another.

Moreover, it has become a beautiful memory from the far East in the minds of many young people of this generation during their youth when their thinking is most active and their vision is clearest.

The "Oriental impression" of backwardness, ruin, ignorance, ugliness, etc. that had been created with great effort over the years was transformed by this nasty woman, Marisue, into the "Chinese impression" of mystery, beauty, strength, and prosperity. Coupled with the various preferential treatments during the honeymoon period between the two countries, this new Oriental impression has been deeply rooted in people's hearts, severely defeating the cultural and entertainment attack that had been deployed for many years...

Why does such a nearly cheating person appear in this world? !

Su Yun, who successfully avoided assassination once again: Haha, that’s of course because I really was cheating.

So many years of hard work and the adjustment with the system's golden finger are not something that an ordinary killer can easily solve. After secretly checking his own rising value in the black market, Su Yun looked up at the sky, feeling deeply moved.

Unfortunately, because of her increasing "net worth", she can no longer do many of the things she used to do outside.

For example, dressing up and sneaking into a theater to watch your own movie, especially in free America.

When I return to Hong Kong in the future, I will go to Zhao’s cinemas to challenge the limits of stealth. If I am outside, I’d better be cautious...ah, it’s safer to be rational.

With this in mind, Su Yun did not challenge himself again, but returned to the heavily guarded and first-class laboratory with safe construction, and continued to work hard to climb the technology tree with the R&D staff.

Of course, although she couldn't watch the movie for various reasons, there were quite a few workers who took her place in the promotional activities and premiere activities...

Looking at the packed theater, many people smiled from the bottom of their hearts.

The sporadic noises gradually died down as the lights in the theater dimmed. Under everyone's expectant gaze, the big title "Grave Robber 4: Finding Mary" finally made its official debut to all the audiences who loved this movie series.

Of course, there are many viewers who don’t like this movie series or come here purely for leisure and enjoyment, but as long as they pay, Su Yun and the production team will definitely welcome them...

The cast list is accompanied by a simple commentary: in the previous few films, the heroine Lin Susu was asked by the Goddess Tomb Guards to stay in the Tomb permanently to replace the energy core to guard the Tomb. In order to save his lover, the hero Zhuang Chen agreed to a "deal" from the leader of the Goddess Tomb Guards. Within three years, he would collect all the artifacts from the Goddess Tomb that were scattered around the world. When he came back, he could use them to replenish the energy core in exchange for Lin Susu's return.

Therefore, Zhuang Chen and the rest of the Qianmen people traveled around the world, looking for the lost artifacts from the Goddess' Tomb in various places.

As the successor of the general, the second male lead, Zhuang Ni, becomes a kind of insurance. He travels abroad with the ruby ​​necklace that has lost its power, while continuing to study his archaeology courses. He only learns traditional skills with Zhuang Chen and others during the winter and summer vacations.

But in the third part, Zhuang Ni and Qing Xia were accidentally taken through time and space by the ruby ​​necklace and returned to the Anti-Japanese War period. After completing the cycle of history, it was also in the easter egg clip that the story of Lin Susu being the "sacrificial girl" in the goddess' tomb many years ago was brought out.

Therefore, many people are speculating that this is why the commander of the guard team asked Lin Susu to replace the energy core and stay in the tomb to guard the goddess forever - because Lin Susu was originally a sacrifice sent by humans to the goddess' tomb, and now it is just "returning things to their place".

In this way, the story line seems to be able to complete the original historical line in the dark, just like Johnny and Qingxia's time travel.

However, unexpectedly, in another movie "Guest Star" by Johnny English, there was another new discovery: the altar of the Goddess' Tomb and a mysterious nine-dragon coffin phenomenon in space may have some unknown connection.

At the same time, when Zhuang Chen and his team once again went to the Tomb of the Goddess to deliver the lost antiquities, they discovered something extremely shocking: the Tomb of the Goddess... had suddenly disappeared.

Not only the goddess' tomb, but also the guards who had stayed in the goddess' tomb for thousands of years, and Lin Susu who was asked to stay here to guard it, all the people and things, disappeared silently without a trace.